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Bob Dylan's Brutal New Video
Indie | Wednesday 29th August 2012 | Osh
Violent - but also genius
Bob Dylan's new video for the single 'Duquesne Whistle' from the upcoming album Tempest feels like quite a disturbing short film. It all starts so harmless and quite charming. A guy wants to woo a girl, waits in front of her flat, follows her, wants to give her a rose. She dismisses him.
'Duquesne Whistle' and it's swingey, mysterious saloon sound brilliantly supports the video's actions – the harmless ones in the beginning and the violent ones after the turn. The hero is thrown into a van by a group of guys that look like noone would ever dare to mess with them. They tie him to a chair and abuse him in a manner that reminds of corrupt interrogations in the darkest corner of a war zone – we're talking classical baseball bat on the knee style here. Dylan is also in the video himself, walking down the street with a bizarre entourage and coming upon the hero at the very end.
There is an absurd element to the way the music and the pictures correlate. A gloomy atmosphere and an abrupt twist. Gripping!
Director Nash Edgerton has previously worked with Dylan on the videos for 'Must Be Santa Claus' and 'Beyond Here Lies Nothing' and violence – never busting an artistic claim – is no novelty in his work.
Tempest, Dylan's 35th studio album, will be released September 11th.
Watch the video here!
Monya Beutelspacher
